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Krinovite R140079

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Name: Krinovite
RRUFF ID: R140079
Ideal Chemistry: Na4[Mg8Cr3+4]O4[Si12O36]
Locality: Wichita County Meteorite, Wichita County, Texas, USA
Source: Rock Currier [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Broken pieces of green crystals.
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed only by single crystal X-ray diffraction.
Mineral Group: [ Sapphirine (12) ]
RAMAN SPECTRUM 
RRUFF ID:
Sample Description: Unoriented Raman on the primary sample, 532/780nm spectrum is overwhelmed by fluorescence
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RRUFF ID: R140079
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Sample Description: Unoriented Raman on the primary sample, 532/780nm spectrum is overwhelmed by fluorescence
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 16% of 150mW
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POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R140079.9
Sample Description: Single crystal, powder profile is calculated
Cell Refinement Output: a: 10.198(4)Å    b: 10.604(6)Å    c: 8.728(4)Å
alpha: 105.04(2)°    beta: 96.58(2)°    gamma: 125.19(2)°   Volume: 701.9(3)Å3    Crystal System: triclinic
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Calculated diffraction file.

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Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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REFERENCES for Krinovite

American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record]

Anthony J W, Bideaux R A, Bladh K W, and Nichols M C (1990) Handbook of Mineralogy, Mineral Data Publishing, Tucson Arizona, USA, by permission of the Mineralogical Society of America. [view file]

Olsen E, Fuchs L (1968) Krinovite, NaMg2CrSi3O10: a new meteorite mineral, Science, 161, 786-787

Fleischer M (1969) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 54, 573-580   [view file]

Merlino S (1972) X-ray crystallography of krinovite, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 136, 81-88   [view file]

Bonaccorsi E, Merlino S, Pasero M (1989) The crystal structure of the meteoritic mineral krinovite, NaMg2CrSi3O10, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 187, 133-138   [view file]

Burt D M (1994) Vector representation of some mineral compositions in the aenigmatite group, with special reference to hogtuvaite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 32, 449-457   [view file]

Jensen B B (1996) Solid solution among members of the aenigmatite group, Mineralogical Magazine, 60, 982-986   [view file]

Kunzmann T (1999) The aenigmatite-rhönite mineral group, European Journal of Mineralogy, 11, 743-756   [view file]

Grew E S, Hålenius U, Pasero M, Barbier J (2008) Recommended nomenclature for the sapphirine and surinamite group (sapphirine supergroup), Mineralogical Magazine, 72, 839-876   [view file]